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Nour Festival 2014 launched
Oct21

Nour Festival 2014 launched

The annual Nour Festival in London’s cosmopolitan Chelsea and Kensington neighbourhoods launches its fifth cycle this week with an expanded cultural programme focused on contemporary Middle Easter and North Africa (MENA) and its varied British and European connections. Spread across numerous venues in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, home to citizens and residents of great cultural diversity, the six-week festival...

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Darvish Fakhr’s Palimpsest at EOA.P
Sep05

Darvish Fakhr’s Palimpsest at EOA.P

The extraordinary painterly explorations by Darvish Fakhr finally get a dedicated exposure in the artist’s solo exhibition at EOA.Projects, aka Edge of Arabia, in southwest London’s slowly regenerating Battersea Thames riverside, writes SAJID RIZVI. It’s a tightly edited, evocative oeuvre that’s on view at the gallery, a culmination of several years of work informed or influenced by visits to native Iran. Remaindered materials and...

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Recalling the Future: Iranian art since the ’79 revolution
Jan16

Recalling the Future: Iranian art since the ’79 revolution

The work of 29 Iranian artists produced before or after the 1979 revolution that toppled the Shah and installed the Islamic Republic is on view 16 January-22 March 2014 at the University of London Brunei Gallery. Many of the works on display are being shown in the UK for the first time. Recalling The Future challenges assumptions about ‘Iranian’art. As Iranian artists in the 1960s and 1970s increasingly combined signifiers...

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Magic of Persia prize finalists

The Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize 2013 (MOP CAP 2013) Finalists’ Exhibition will take place in London 15-19 October 2013. The exhibition at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU, features works by seven emerging artists of Iranian heritage, selected by an international judging panel from a shortlist of 19. The Finalists’ Exhibition includes works in a diverse range of media including video, installation...

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Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi at Mana Contemporary

Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi present Magic of Light at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, 29 September-28 December 2013. Mana Contemporary, in collaboration with New York’s Leila Heller Gallery, will feature the works by artist and filmmaker Shoja Azari with painter Shahram Karimi, in the exhibition, Magic of Light, 29 September 2013 to 28 December 2013. The exhibition will feature three collaborative video-painting series by...

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New auction room enters Mideast art market
Sep12

New auction room enters Mideast art market

A new art auctioneer is entering the market in London as interest in contemporary art from the Middle East continues, mainly with individual and institutional collecting in the MENA region and expatriate communities in Europe. The Auction Room announced its inaugural auction of Middle Eastern contemporary art which will take place online at www.theauctionroom.com on 19 September 2013 at 7pm London time. Art works chosen for the...

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